Hohenkirchen water tower
The water tower Hohenkirchen is a water tower built in 1934 on the southwestern edge of Hohenkirchen in the municipality of Wangerland . The clinker building made of Bockhorn clinker bricks designed by Fritz Höger is the landmark of Hohenkirchen.
The approximately 30 meter high water tower has a base area of nine by nine meters and is externally divided into seven sections, each tapering towards the top. The deep foundation was carried out using 28 reinforced concrete piles with a length of ten meters and a diameter of 35.5 centimeters. Inside the water tower has four floors. The internal water tank with a capacity of around 180 m³ of water was housed on the fourth floor. 146 steps lead to the upper viewing platform.
history
As early as 1932, the Reichsbauamt Wilhelmshaven, which was responsible for matters relating to the Reichsmarine , began planning the construction of a water tower to ensure the supply of drinking water to the naval facilities in Schillig and at the same time throughout northern Jeverland . For this purpose, a central location was sought for a water tower that was to be connected to the Feldhausen waterworks in Schortens via a water pipe . A six meter high terp in Landeswarfen near Hohenkirchen was ultimately chosen as the location . In 1933 an architecture competition was announced . On January 31, 1934, a jury selected Fritz Höger, who was no stranger to Wilhelmshaven and who had already designed the Rüstringen town hall in 1928, from the eleven submitted designs. Höger received a prize of 300 Reichsmarks for his design .
The construction was carried out by the Wilhelmshaven construction company Hermann Möller, which had submitted the cheapest offer of 35,600 Reichsmarks in response to the tender for the construction work. The project was effectively propaganda in the fight against high unemployment by the National Socialist NSDAP district leadership Friesland. With a large rally on March 21, 1934, was groundbreaking ceremony attended by the Oldenburg State Minister Julius Pauly completed. In the record time of less than six months, the building was pulled up by hundreds of workers. Commissioning took place on August 6, 1934.
On March 2, 1960, the Oldenburg-East Frisian Water Association (OOWV) took over the water tower. Around 20 years later, technical innovations made the tower obsolete and the water association sold the tower to the Hohenkirchen photographer and photo journalist Fritz Tuhy. Tuhy used the building as an exhibition space and to present his photo archive until his death in 1992. The tower was then leased to a motorcycle club as a clubhouse and also used as a radio mast location for cellular communications. An inspection and inspection was therefore no longer possible. In 2010 the tower was up for sale.
literature
- Helmut Burlager (Ed.): 100 Years of Jeverland. Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Jever o. J. (article by Wolfgang Koppen)
Web links
- Water tower in Hohenkirchen. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011 ; accessed on October 17, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gordon Päschel: landmarks to sell. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of September 18, 2010 ( online , last accessed on February 21, 2018)
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 43 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 18.5" E